Quotes About Influence

A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together.

they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.

Ä°nsan bir bukalemundur; doÄŸas?n?n yasas? gereÄŸi, bulunduÄŸu yerin rengini al?r. Çevresindeki etkiler onun tercihlerini, kaç?nd??? ÅŸeyleri, politikas?n?, beÄŸenilerini, ahlak?n?, dinini yarat?r.

To be good is noble. To tell other people how to be good is even nobler and much less trouble

Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain

Ljudska vrsta ima samo jedno zaista delotvorno oružje, a to je osmeh. Kada osmeh krene u napad ništa mu ne može odoleti.

Había descubierto, sin darse cuenta, una de las leyes fundamentales de la conducta humana, a saber: que para hacer que alguien, hombre o muchacho, desee alguna cosa, sólo es necesario hacerla difícil de conseguir.

The spider looks for the merchant who doesn't advertise so he can spin a web across his door and lead a life of undisturbed peace.

Cumplamos la tarea de vivir de tal modo que cuando muramos, incluso el de la funeraria lo sienta

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured ... in India only.

KoÅ›cióÅ' d??y do zreformowania innych ludzi. Nie byÅ'oby to zÅ'e, gdyby raz, dla przykÅ'adu chocia?by, sam siÄ™ trochÄ™ zreformowaÅ'.

Un pauvre garçon qui n'avait rien d'autre à proposer alla jusqu'à dire, avec une fierté manifeste à ce souvenir : « Eh bien, moi, une fois, Tom Sawyer m'a battu ! »

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

It always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

recogniz[ing] the dangerous influence the unknown naturally has on everyone. P.60

You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

She soon says, You're my best friend, Ed. You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again.

I guess that's the beauty of books. When they finish they don't really finish.

There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.